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ConAgra Foods Inc., maker of Chef Boyardee pasta and Hebrew National hot dogs, wants to settle some of the hundreds of cases filed after it recalled peanut butter tainted with salmonella, a lawyer for the company said Wednesday. ConAgra attorney ...

Gary Kaplan, the Betonsports Plc founder captured 10 months after the U.S. government indicted him on Internet betting charges, renewed his bail request in court Thursday. Kaplan’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson in St. Louis to grant ...

Sweet Traditions LLC and affiliate Sweet Traditions of Illinois LLC, a Krispy Kreme doughnut franchisee with 23 locations in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, filed a Chapter 11 reorganization petition Tuesday in St. Louis. The St. Louis-based company says it has ...

U.S. bankruptcy filings surged 34 percent in August from the same month a year ago, according to court data compiled by Jupiter eSources LLC. Nearly 77,000 petitions for court protection from creditors were filed by companies and individuals in August, ...

The Treasury Department is encouraging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest sources of money for U.S. home loans, to create financing programs that will help homeowners avoid foreclosure, according to Undersecretary Robert Steel. More than 100 U.S. mortgage lenders ...

A worker sweeps the steps leading up to the Kansas City Municipal Court Wednesday. With a lawsuit against the city off the table, the City Council may be ready to fill some of the court’s judicial vacancies. Photo by Scott ...

A truck crosses Truman Road on U.S. 71 Highway. This portion of the Bruce R. Watkins Expressway is one of two subject to a lawsuit brought by Damon Purcell against MoDOT over design errors on the project. Photo by Peter ...

Verizon Wireless has agreed to settle for about $30 million its share of a lawsuit filed by a couple dozen Missouri cities over cell phone taxes. The company has agreed to pay two years’ worth of back taxes, plus about ...

A Phoenix-based maker of audio equipment faces a possible class action lawsuit concerning overtime pay after a decision last week by a St. Louis federal judge. U.S. District Judge Catherine E. Perry approved conditional certification of a suit against Mitek ...

BALTIMORE — Strolling around the board room at the law firm of Snyder Slutkin & Snyder, Stephen L. Snyder stops at one plaque in particular to point out a framed accolade. The homage is like most of the others that ...

More than four years after a fireworks explosion killed five workers in Florida, what’s left of the wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits that followed are set for trial in St. Louis in 2008. The families of the dead reached ...